Vulnerable residents, mostly second-generation immigrants, appeal ‘arbitrary’ evictions in a town near Lisbon.
Ana Naomi de Sousa
Ana Naomi de Sousa is a filmmaker and journalist. She is the director of: Hacking Madrid; The Architecture of Violence; Guerrilla Architect; and Angol... a Birth of a Movement.
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